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Some of the world's most-respected directors align forces to pay tribute to the city of the New York in this unconventional omnibus sister film to 2006's Paris, Je T'Aime. Broken into short segments, ... read more read more...New York, I Love You is comprised of ten films, most choosing to take a down-to-earth approach to the stories of the countless lives lived in the city on a given day. The segments are as follows, chronologically: Segment 1 -- Directed by Jiang Wen; written by Hu Hong and Meng Yao; starring Hayden Christensen, Andy Garcia, and Rachel Bilson. Segment 2 -- Directed by Mira Nair; written by Suketu Mehta; starring Natalie Portman and Irfan Khan.Segment 3 -- Written and directed by Shunji Iwai; adaptation by Israel Horovitz. Starring Orlando Bloom and Christina Ricci. Segment 4 -- Directed by Yvan Attal; written by Olivier Lécot and Yvan Attal; starring Robin Wright Penn, Ethan Hawke, Maggie Q, and Chris Cooper.Segment 5 -- Directed by Brett Ratner; written by Jeff Nathanson; starring Anton Yelchin, James Caan, Olivia Thirlby, and Blake LivelySegment 6 -- Directed by Allen Hughes; written by Xan Cassavetes and Stephen Winter; starring Drea de Matteo and Bradley Cooper. Segment 7 -- Directed by Shekhar Kapur; written by Anthony Minghella; starring Julie Christie, John Hurt, and Shia LaBeouf. Segment 8 -- Written and directed by Natalie Portman; starring Taylor Geare, Carlos Acosta, and Jacinda Barrett. Segment 9 -- Written and directed by Fatih Akin; starring Burt Young, Ugur Yucel, and Shu Qi.Segment 10 -- Written and directed by Joshua Marston; starring Eli Wallach and Cloris Leachman. Transitions in between segments -- Directed by Randall Balsmeyer; written by Israel Horovitz, James Strouse, and Hall Powell; starring Emilie Ohana, Eva Amurri, and Justin Bartha. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi

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DVD Release Date: February 2, 2010

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    June 9, 2011
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    Such a great cast, such a waste. "New York, I love You" is a series of short stories about different people in New York, and their relationships. So many stories are meshed together that you really don't care for most of the characters or their situations. I hoped this was goi... read moreng to be a newer "Love Actually." Instead it's a collection of "arty" short films, strung together very poorly. You would think a cast that includes, Bradley Cooper, Orlando Bloom, Shia LeBouf, Natalie Portman, Chris Cooper, Christina Ricci, Justin Bartha, Ethan Hawke, Robin Wright Penn, Cloris Leachman, Maggie Q, Andy Garcia, Blake Lively, James Caan, Hayden Christensen, and Anton Yelchin would be a GREAT movie. Unfortunately, actors don't always make the movie. "New York, I Love You" I hate the yankees, and I hate you too. Don't watch this crap, no wonder I had never heard of it til I saw it on the shelf at the library,
  • December 31, 2010
    I am shocked at all the bad reviews I have read regarding this film. I thought that this movie was beautiful, and imaginative. This was a definite joy to watch. I think maybe you need to be in the right mood for it, and understand what it's supposed to be? I enjoyed each of the v... read moreignettes, and couldn't wait for the next one. Wonderful actors - Portman, Cooper, Christensen, Garcia, Hawke, etc.--the list goes on and on! My favorite one has to be the one with Cloris Leachman...that one was a hoot. To me, this was a real gem....
  • July 23, 2010
    A convulted and weirdly trippy film, created buzz with all it's A listers. It seems that adapting from the original didn't go so well.
  • April 29, 2010
    In it's own right, "NEW YORK I LOVE YOU" is (about) just as good as "PARIS, JE T'AIME," though the bizarre and oddly realised segments from that film are sorely absent here.
  • March 31, 2010
    Pretty good film I would say. I absolutely loved the beginning with the part between Andy Garcia and Hayden Christensen, very clever!!!! The different stories were all unique and special to the characters even though some were not develop completely and were missing a certain an... read moregle if you get what i mean... It was good to see many talented actors colaborating on a movie and it's always fun too see them all bump in there stories. Great piece of film.

    Ten vignettes in New York City: a pickpocket meets his match; a young Hasidic woman, on the eve of her marriage, reveals herself to an Indian businessman; a writer tries a pick-up line; an artist seeks a model; a composer needs to read; two women connect; a man takes a child to Central Park; lovers meet; a couple takes a walk on their anniversary; a kid goes to the prom with a girl in a wheelchair; a retired singer contemplates suicide. There are eight million stories in the naked city: these have been ten of them.
  • March 19, 2010
    For the most part, this is an amazing movie. While there are a few not so great stories, the others counterbalance it. There are some great performances by actors that have never really gotten a chance to shine. It has a really upbeat feeling towards love without being corny, whi... read morech I think is very rare in current movies. I kind've wish the stories were separated instead of mixed together at times, but it worked for the most part.
  • March 3, 2010
    The stories aren't very diverse - all heterosexual and few interracial. The ones that spanned ages were somewhat cliche as well. However, it's still a nice, romantic pastiche. I'm somewhat in the middle about the meshed structure. I was slightly dissatisfied with the separate... read more vignettes in Paris, Je T'aime, but I can't say the intertwining stories in New York, I Love You are wholly organic, especially with the shoddy transitions. Favorites: Yvan Attal (writer & hooker), Shunji Iwai (sound guy & book girl), Allen Hughes (day after two strangers hookup), Fatih Akin (painter & Chinese herbalist). I also saw Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut on YouTube, and it's surprisingly good - different, hence why it was cut probably - but very earthy and nuanced.
  • February 24, 2010
    "every moment another story begins"

    An anthology film joining several love stories set in one of the most loved cities of the world, New York.

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    New York, I Love You is the second phase o... read moref a series of anthology films dealing with cities and the people who live and love in them. The first was 'Paris, je'taime', which I really enjoyed. The film was made up of several segments, each written and/or directed by a different director (most of which were French, but there is a very funny segment directed by Joel & Ethan Coen). Like 'Paris', this one is also an anthology, directed by several different directors (Fatih Akin, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Shekhar Kapur etc.), and also like 'Paris' deals with New Yorkers, and why they love the city they live in. It features a top notch cast, featuring the likes of Natalie Portman, Shia LaBeouf, Christina Ricci, Orlando Bloom, Ethan Hawke and also features such seasoned veterans as James Caan, Cloris Leachman, Eli Wallach and Julie Christie. Some of the stories really fly, and others don't (although I suppose it will depend on individual tastes---I won't ruin it for anybody else by revealing which ones worked for me and which ones didn't). Word is that the next entry in the series will be Shanghai, China.
  • February 18, 2010
    I was actually surprised at how good New York, I Love You ended up being. My gut feeling after watching the trailer and reading others' reviews was that it would be a disappointment. Paris, Je T'aime stands out in my mind as being one of the single greatest films ever created. Wh... read moreile New York, I Love You is not a remake or a sequel per-say, they are companion pieces. Still, it really is not worth comparing the two because Paris, Je T'aime is better in just about every way possible. You've really got to go into the movie with an open mind or you are definately going to come out with the short straw.

    Overall, it is a light, artistic, and sweet movie. it is filled with off-beat characters and situations, and is really very entertaining to watch. One major thing that bothered me is that none of the segments seemed particuarly romantic or perceptive about human nature. The "love" stories are mostly about people trying to get into each other's pants, and the segments that seem like they are meant to be touching left me cold. Then again, this is New York, and kinky sex and shallow drama are two things that Americans can do so very well. I know a lot of this is negative. So, do not get me wrong, I really did enjoy New York, I Love You. It is just that in the end it is the flaws, not the virtues, that stand out.
  • February 11, 2010
    After the Paris version I though this was going to be great, but it was a pretty big let down. Instead of lots of fun and interesting stories (such as vampires, nerdy tourists, strange encounters in subways, and yes, even enjoyable romantic stories), this film wallows in useless... read more and often confusing stories that all are pretty much about the same thing: people having purely physical sexual relationships. Yes, there is more than just that, but for the most part it's not that interesting. Let's hope the other sequels are more meaningful. If they're trying to say that New York is just a bunch of crappy strangers, then they pulled it off well enough, I guess I just don't care much about them.

Critic Reviews


Peter Howell
November 29, 2009
Peter Howell, Toronto Star

While many of the segments amuse, and rarely wear out their welcome (the average running time is eight minutes apiece), it rapidly becomes apparent that each of them has some kind of twist, like an O ... Full Review

Amy Biancolli
October 30, 2009
Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle

It's a bit too arty, and a bit too cute, but it charms and cajoles with the pluck of a native New Yorker. Full Review

Andrea Gronvall
October 30, 2009
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader

The project is lush and seductive as a whole, though some segments are especially vibrant. Full Review

Michael Phillips
October 19, 2009
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

The film only feels like two or three different sort of approaches are represented. They don't really feel like widely different attacks on the material. Full Review

Philip Kennicott
October 16, 2009
Philip Kennicott, Washington Post

The characters are all more or less useless, inhabiting the frivolous tippy-top of Maslow's pyramid of needs, with little sense that there's anyone essential at the bottom. It's fun, but decadent. Full Review

Elizabeth Weitzman
October 16, 2009
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

Where's the ethnic diversity? The cultural overflow? The dirt, the chaos, the cramped quarters, the people who look like us, rather than movie stars? Full Review

Betsy Sharkey
October 16, 2009
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

Even the more predictable prove pleasurable. Full Review

A.O. Scott
October 16, 2009
A.O. Scott, New York Times

But in spite of some attempts at human and neighborhood variety, the stories have a self-conscious sameness, as if they were classroom assignments in an undergraduate fiction-writing class.

Christy Lemire
October 16, 2009
Christy Lemire, Associated Press

The result is a curiously bland hodgepodge -- not terribly evocative of such a famous place, and not all that inspiring in the connections it depicts. Full Review

Richard Roeper
October 16, 2009
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com

Not quite as wonderful as "Pari, je t'aime," but still one of my favorite movies of 2009. Full Review

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    • David (Shunji Iwai segment): Does this mean we're getting married?
    • Camille (Shunji Iwai segment): Hey, David, it's Camille. You know, when Dostoevsky was writing The Gambler, he signed a contract with his publisher saying that he would finish it in twenty-six days, and he did it, but he had the help of this young stenographer. This girl, she... she stayed with him and she helped him. And... afterwards they actually got married. Ha, isn't that cool? That's how he met his wife. Anyway I found this story in the preface for Crime and Punishment so I was thinking that... and, this would have to be between you and me, but... I was thinking that I could read the books and tell you what's going on and that way you could just focus on your music. But only if you're comfortable with this, and if you're not then you can just forget it, and you can quit, but if you are... then open this door.
  • Natalie Portman had to juggle her roles in the film "New York, I Love You!". She not only starred in the film, but she also worked as a producer and director.

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